•Siminalayi Fubara Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has approved the release of over N300 million as grant to 389 medical doctors in the State Civil Service, who are on residency training. The released funds will cover 2023, 2024 Residency Training Grant requirements, with payments ranging from N800,000 to N900,000 per resident doctor f...
•Medical doctors The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has highlighted a recent report showing that doctors and nurses in the public sector have the lowest bribery rate compared to other public sectors. NMA President, Prof. Bala Audu, discussed the findings during a news briefing in Abuja. The report, titled “Corruption in Nigeria: Patterns a...
The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals (OAUTH), Ile-Ife, Osun State, staged a peaceful protest yesterday to demand their outstanding entitlements from the federal government. They also threatened to embark on an industrial action in the next four weeks if their requests are not met, reports N...
•People hold placards calling for better pay for junior doctors Junior hospital doctors in England began a five-day strike today, a week before a general election in which the state of the publicly funded National Health Service (NHS) is a major issue. It follows nearly a dozen similar protests by doctors below specialist, consultant level [&h...
The Ogun State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association Ogun has threatened to embark on industrial action within the next one week over alleged poor working conditions. Speaking at a press conference held at Doctors’ House, Lukosi, Abeokuta, the Chairman of the Association, Dr. Azim Kunle Ashimi, revealed that the 21-day ultimatum given on ...
•Kenyan doctors protesting with placards Kenya’s government has signed a deal with striking doctors, the health ministry announced today, after almost two months of industrial action that left thousands of patients struggling to find medical care. “After 56 days, @kmpdu signs agreement, ending nationwide doctors’ strike,” the ministry said on ...
•Caring Africa Summit Against the backdrop of Nigeria’s population of demographics, including children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, stakeholders convened at the maiden Caring Africa Summit in Lagos to champion comprehensive reforms in the country’s care industry. Nigeria has the highest number of older people in the continent, a...
•Metropolitan Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya A nationwide doctors’ strike in Kenya on Thursday paralysed health services at some government-run hospitals which are already suffering due to a lack of medicines and equipment. The medics are taking the action, now in its second week, to demand an increase in pay and better working conditions, their uni...
•Some doctors performing a surgery Doctors under the auspices of the National Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria have lamented the high cost of drugs in the country. The association said the high prices of drugs would compound the woes of Nigerians, particularly those suffering from one ailment or the other, as many of [&hellip...
•Nigerian doctors The federal government yesterday disclosed that 55,000 licensed doctors are in the country to attend to the growing population of patients following the exodus of health professionals to hospitals and health facilities abroad. It said in the last five years, the country lost about 15,000 to 16,000 doctors to the Japa syndrome...
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